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A dearth of reliable elder abuse screening tools should be a “wake-up call” for healthcare professionals, according to an editorial published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine that was written in response...

The bipartisan Promoting Alzheimer’s Awareness to Prevent Elder Abuse Act (S.3703/H.R. 6813) legislation, championed by the Alzheimer’s Association and Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM), was unanimously...

Assisted living communities were among the healthcare settings associated with incidents of potential abuse or neglect of Medicare beneficiaries in an audit of claims data, prompting a review of data to...

Massachusetts offers older adults the best protections against abuse, whereas New Jersey offers the weakest protections from elder abuse among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a...

A new effort in Wisconsin will encourage the public to report cases of elder abuse occurring at Medicaid-funded and other senior living and care facilities, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has...

Assisted living communities could help reduce incidents stemming from aggressive and abusive behaviors in residents by training staff members to detect and manage the early signs of problematic behaviors...

Total monetary recoveries by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units in assisted living-related fraud, abuse and neglect criminal and civil cases increased by more than 600% from fiscal year 2016 to FY 2017,...

Elder mistreatment is a common problem, with poor self-reported health tied to increased later risk for mistreatment, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Findings particularly for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

The federal government will spend an additional $3.42 million to counter physical and fiscal crimes against the elderly, according to the Justice Department.